Papers by Danilo Silva de Carvalho
Montague semantics and modifier consistency measurement in neural language models (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on distributional language models have been focused on linguistics and their relationship with semantic formalisms for decades. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for measuring compositional behavior in contemporary language embedding models by introducing three new tests inspired by Montague semantics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method measures compositional behavior in language embedding models on adjectival modifier phenomena in adjective-noun phrases. |
Formal Semantic Controls over Language Models (2024.lrec-tutorials)
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| Challenge: | Text embeddings provide a concise representation of the semantics of sentences and larger spans of text, rather than individual words, capturing a wide range of linguistic features. |
| Approach: | They propose to shorten the gap between latent semantics and formal symbolics by comparing distributional models to symbolic models grounded on formal linguistics and well-defined mathematical properties. |
| Outcome: | This paper examines the analysis and control of text representations, covering methods from pooling to LLM-based. |